Author Topic: Removing previous work (Read 2740 times)

tab62 · « **on:** August 25, 2013, 12:11 »

I am curious of how many of you remove previous work on sites like Shutter and iStock due to your skill level getting better each year? I look back on some of my images in 2011 and laugh at how bad they are compared to my newer stuff. Do you feel a so-so image can hurt you overall even if it generates a sale here and there?

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Ron · « **Reply #1 on:** August 25, 2013, 12:23 »

How can it hurt your sales? They werent hurting your sales in 2011? Never remove an image unless its the odd one out. It can always be the image someone needs. Gursky has plenty of images I would delete from my port, but they made him millions of dollars.

Are you going to delete images from today in 2015? That way you'll never build up a large portfolio.

cuppacoffee · « **Reply #2 on:** August 25, 2013, 12:48 »

I remove non-sellers if they have been around for 3, 4 or 5 years. First I re-keyword them just to see if they aren't being found in some newer searches since concepts and words change. If they don't sell after that I get rid of them. In the off chance someone likes my "style" (I don't really have one) I wouldn't want to show my admirers my stinkers from 2004. A bigger port is only as good as the images in it that sell. 10,000 images with 8,000 non-sellers is only a 2,000 image port. More is not always better and we complain about the agencies having too many images these days. Weeding out the bad images on all the sites also includes yours (not yours per se, but metaphorically "yours").

WarrenPrice · « **Reply #3 on:** August 25, 2013, 13:14 »

I think it depends on which site you mean.

I remove images regularly at DT, even removed a few that do sell because of the changes to Subs; maximum size upper level subs selling for 35 cents. Especially the ones that sell well at other sites.

Also have continued to remove non-sellers at the 2-year point rather than wait for the warning message.

Other than deleting an entire port, don't remember deleting non-sellers at other sites?

gillian vann · « **Reply #4 on:** August 25, 2013, 16:09 »

in theory I think this is something we should all be forced to do, and the agencies should have offered us increased upload limits if we remove some of our junk from the past. (yes, I get it that it won't work for all, but a once a year spring clean would be great for all agencies)

do i do it? no, cos as pointed out, someone else might like it one day. I have migrated some stuff to stocksy so had to remove images for that reason.

ruxpriencdiam · « **Reply #5 on:** August 25, 2013, 18:29 »

You never remove an image that could one day get you an EL or an SOD when you wake up look and go WOW look what sold and for what!

Total wast to try and build a port yet delete stuff from it that if you are paying any attention to some that are having quite a few old files sell!

So where would those sales be if the old files were deleted?

Cant get a sale on something you no longer have available!

ShadySue · « **Reply #6 on:** August 25, 2013, 19:42 »

No, because old files can always sell. On iS, I found that often ELs are for older zero or low-selling files. The older zero files are now in Main, though, so much less $$.